Trump Justice Dept. Pressuring University of Virginia President to Resign

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/us/politics/university-of-virginia-president-trump.html

Trump Justice Dept. Pressuring University of Virginia President to Resign
The Justice Department has demanded that James E. Ryan step down to help resolve a civil rights investigation into the school, three people familiar with the matter said.
By Michael S. Schmidt and Michael C. Bender
June 26, 2025 Updated 8:23 p.m. ET

The Trump administration has privately demanded that the University of Virginia oust its president to help resolve a Justice Department investigation into the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, according to three people briefed on the matter.

The extraordinary condition the Justice Department has put on the school demonstrates that President Trump’s bid to shift the ideological tilt of the higher education system, which he views as hostile to conservatives, is more far-reaching than previously understood.

The government’s extensive pressure campaign has stripped billions of dollars from elite universities, including Harvard, which has been the target of investigations from at least six different federal agencies. But this is the first time the administration has pushed a university to remove its leader.

The Justice Department has contended to the university that the president, James E. Ryan, has not dismantled the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs and misrepresented the steps taken to end them. A spokesman for the department did not immediately return a request for comment.

The demand to remove Mr. Ryan was made over the past month on several occasions by Gregory Brown, the deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights, to university officials and representatives, according to the three people briefed on the matter.

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[Deuxcents]

1. Tell TSF to pound sand.

[vapor2]

2. HE continues to squash higher education,

he wants us to remain uneducated like his base

[msongs]

3. this VA president should hold a public press conference and air all this out. no secret bullying pls nt

[choie]

4. WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING

TO THIS COUNTRY???

[EndlessWire]

5. Trump's a dictator

busy dicking his way to total control of everything. This monster has got to go.

[lostnfound]

7. A fascist coup...or was your question merely rhetorical? And it ain't just Trump

Leonard Leo got $1.6 billion or so from conservative Barry Said. Whatcha gonna do with it Leonard? “Our project with the courts is essentially finished. Now we’re going to do the same with universities and corporate boards.” Or something like that.

Changing universities has been on their wish lists for a couple of decades. The Project 2025 guys are strategic thinkers.

If the truth were understood, these ‘strategic thinkers’ might be fairly recognized as parasites, and instead of feeding off a fat, creative, chaotic but resilient economy, they are going to end up killing the geese that laid the golden eggs.

[lostnfound]

6. A litmus test to replace with obedient fascists, happening in c-suites also

It’s been happening in c-suites and universities for a couple of years, i believe.

[Martin68]

8. The War Against Education. The War Against women. The War Against Health Care. The War Against Science.

There are a lot of fronts in this war the MAGAts are waging on America.

[mdbl]

9. No University is hostile to Conservatives

It just refuses to teach how to lie, cheat, steal and break the law and won't promote hate and conspiracy theories as fact - or does that now define conservatism?